Re: 2.21.0 release plans and considerations

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:16 PM Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> wrote:

> > * I'd base it off Git commits rather than tarballs. The tarballs are
> anachronistic, and with git commits, it will be easier to build binaries
> for pending changes (to make sure they don't break the process).
>
> Nope, I'm not a huge fan of doing this and actually I'd argue that
> tarballs are easier: Just run 'make dist' for your local changes. With
> GUB (which is entirely based on git commits for the LilyPond spec?), I
> always need to push the changes to a public repository. This has cost
> me quite some time in the past days and it just doesn't feel right when
> I want to quickly iterate with local changes.
>
>
You don't have to push to a public repo. You can just pull from local
repository, no? I think file:/// urls work with Git too.

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